Financial & Travel Musings

One of the handy things about the pre-paid currency cards is that you can use them as a savings account for your holidays and average out the exchange rate at the same time.

Thus, we’ve been putting £50 in the Post Office travel money card fairly regularly over the last few months with a view to using it to pay for our holiday in due course. Granted, I’m not getting the very best exchange rate at any given time doing this but what it does let me do is to pop £50 in and average out the exchange rate that I’m getting. That’s effectively taking the exchange rate risk out of the equation for me at very little additional cost.

Somewhat more economical on the exchange rate front would be FairFX which lets you put in small amounts too but I find that popping it into the Post Office is handier.

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As usual for the end of September, the weather can change quite dramatically in a single day so women’s sweaters are becoming the order of the day for Wendy.

Or, rather, they should be. In practice she’s come to the conclusion that my ones are warmer and she’s started working her way through them instead.

Which leaves me looking for something warm now!

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There’s one of our local politicians who’s really showing what stress related hair loss in a big way.

Frankly, I thought the whole stress related hair loss thing was an old wives tale but this guy had a full head of hair (nope, not a wig) just a matter of months ago but now looks like he’s added something like 20 or 30 years to his age with a truly massive amount of hair loss.

Definitely the “pulling out hair” look!

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